'For women who are under 40, they do tend to have a lower survival rate than older women,' she told AFP.
'The tumours seem to behave differently in younger women,' she said, adding that they tended to display larger and more aggressive tumours.
Zorbas said the research should encourage women diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia because of the high rates of survival but that it also underlined the importance of early detection.
'The overall survival rate in Australia is 87 percent, taking into account all sizes and all stages of the disease,' she said. 'Twenty years ago, this was around 70 to 71 percent.'
Source-AFP
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